Dedication: This week’s standing is dedicated to the person who has had to put up with editing this column for nearly four years. WMUR's Assistant News Director David Hurlburt is headed off to WCVB in Boston. Best of luck David (let’s see if he catches the typo.) ---> Caught it! (two v's in my name)

Saturday, 7:15am, Political Scoop: There are two segments on Saturday wrapping up our two Meet the Candidate segments. The first is with Republican Congressional candidate Marilinda Garcia and the second is with Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Smith. You can watch the full 30 minute interviews with Garcia here and Smith here.

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Sunday, 10 a.m., CloseUP: This week Republican U.S. Senate candidate Scott Brown sits down for his first New Hampshire Sunday television interview. Then, host Josh McEleveen sits down with House Speaker Terie Norelli to discuss the news of her not running for the House this year. (Norelli was clear that this could be more of a break than a retirement.) Then, I come to discuss Norelli and state Sen. Bob Odell’s retirement news, where there are state Senate primaries bubbling up and the 2016 presidential contest. NOTE: Segments of CloseUP are now put online after the show.

For Those Keeping TrackConsider this: when challenging an incumbent this year: a Gallup poll shows 67 percent of New Hampshire residents believe they live in the best state.

NotedLast week this space noted how how the 2008 Chris Dodd for president campaign headquarters became the 2010 Paul Hodes for U.S. Senate campaign headquarters, which is now the 2014 Scott Brown for U.S. Senate campaign office. An alert reader reminded me that this same exact space on Elm Street in Manchester was also the 2006 headquarters for John Lynch’s re-election. In 1852 it was also the Franklin Pierce for President headquarters. (OK, maybe not on the last one.)

In Case You Missed ItBoston Mayor Marty Walsh was asked in an online forum whether he could take back Scott Brown since New Hampshire didn’t want him. His answer: No, thank you.

2016 New Hampshire Primary UpdateTexas Sen. Ted Cruz, who is in New Hampshire this weekend, posed with a tiger skin rug and it blew up on social media.

Neil Bush told CNN that while Barbara Bush might be against Jeb running for president H.W. is all about it.